President Obama issued an executive order yesterday titled, Establishing a Coordinated Government-Wide Initiative to Promote Diversity and Inclusion in the Federal Workforce. Its quite vague, extolling the value of diversity without defining it, and setting up a government-wide initiative for all agencies that will develop and issue a Government-wide Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Plan. Details later, and the devil, of course, will be in the details.

Still, its bad enough already. If government personnel are told to strive for diversity, then of course they will be putting their fat thumbs on the scale to ensure a politically correct racial, ethnic, and gender mix, and that means that there will be divisive, unfair, inefficient discrimination, with the best qualified people not getting hired and promoted.

Obama has just told the federal government "no more hiring of white, straight, males unless you can document that it was absolutely necessary". Earlier in the week, Maxine Waters effectively told him "Do something NOW about black unemployment, or we will ignore you in 2012.

I want everybody to realize how insidiously our thinking is shaped by language with this example:

Think of the variants of the root for "diverse": adverse, perverse, obverse, averse, inverse, converse... The word implies opposition and conflict.

Now consider "diversity" in contrast to the word, "variety." The difference is obvious, the latter is merely an array of differences, while the former implies conflict of interest. Look at the consequences...

Wherever there is conflict, there is need for settlement: bureaucrats, police, lawyers, prison guards... Hence "diversity" as opposed to "variety" as far as the Slave Party is concerned has been a bonanza for the budding police state. Yes, the word is that insidious and so are they.

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posted on 08/20/2011 7:21:26 AM PDT
by Carry_Okie
(GunWalker: Arming "a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as well funded")

This is interesting. I don't believe any executive order can trump veterans preference though. I'd welcome input from any folks who are knowledgeable. Can this really effect the preference given to say, disabled veterans?

Rule by decree. The feds have become a force unto themselves, a force that we must bow down before, or else suffer their wrath. Let’s give the feds a taste of what happened to the last empire that tried to rule us by decree, and to show them how the US came into existence in the first place.

according to the Office of Personnel Management, federal employees in fiscal 2010 were 66.2 percent white, 17.7 percent black, 8 percent Hispanic, 5.6 percent Asian and Pacific Islander and 1.8 percent American Indian. Compared to the general U.S. population, the federal force is a bit too diverse. Blacks are overrepresented by 6.9 percent compared to the civilian work force, Asians and Pacific Islanders by 1.2 percent, and American Indians are more than double their proportion of the population at large. White Americans, who make up about 70 percent of the work force, are underrepresented by around 4 percent. Hispanics are also underrepresented despite the Clinton-era executive order 13171, Hispanic Employment in the Federal Government.

As it is whites are already underrepresented, guess the government will go on a hire whites only binge.

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posted on 08/20/2011 7:27:01 AM PDT
by engrpat
(A village in Kenya is missing their idiot...lets send him back)

Berry, along with Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Jeff Zients, the Presidents Management Council, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, will release a strategic framework for the effort and guidance to agencies in 90 days to help them develop their own roadmaps for hiring, training and promoting more minorities, women, and disabled employees in an effort to diversify the federal government, particularly at the senior levels.

Agencies will have 120 days after that to devise their own plans for implementing the initiative. The governmentwide plan will be updated every four years, and agencies will be expected to revisit their own plans in the same time frame, officials on the conference call said.

The federal government has a special opportunity to lead by example, said Berry.

I think Barry was just reacting to the anger from the Congressional Black Caucus, and did not really think this through.

He has just made an enemy of every white male in the federal workforce, and their families, along with every white male who has been thinking of applying for a federal job. White females are also on notice that they are lower on the pecking order than minority females, and that will anger them. I mean, "diversity" was always the policy on hiring and promotions, but this EO effectively puts agencies on notice that their management will be judged primarily on minority hiring and promotions right up to Election Day. He has declared that he is looking after "his people" FIRST.

Given that the fed workforce is about 39% minority, a percentage in excess of the minority population and workforce, and about 47% female, diversity programs should not be necessary.

Of course this means that every subdivision of every department must be scrutinized to make sure that it is properly diverse, and the paperwork filed, and more diversity outreach and education and compliance officials hired.

I'm just going to start checking "African-American" on all future job applications. According to scientists, my ancestry can be traced to those early hominids who occupied the Great Rift Valley in Kenya a million years ago.

I don’t know about executive orders, but way back in 1970 I was in West Palm Beach just home from 2 tours in Viet Nam, And I tried to get a job with the city as a firefighter using my supposed advantage as a Viet Nam Vet. The Person I talked to flat out told me that I was wasting my time unless I was Black. He said they were ordered to hire Black only regardless of the test scores or Veteran status of any applicants.

CBS buried it in their MarketWatch section. CBS and WaPo are the only national media mentioning it, and they just have brief buried mentions. I think the MSM realizes how badly Barry has just stepped in it. I'm surprised that I haven't seen anything on Fox.

Diversity would mirror the population.
To ME that would mean there would be about 11% blacks working in the Federal government and if it exceeded that you’d freeze their hiring until the population percentages matched the employee demographics.

I still think you just hire the best person for a job. I think we also shrink Federal employment way down to what it used to be as a percentage of the population back in the 60s, not the over 10% of population that it is today.

I am NOT failing to see the point. When Obamastan is fully formed, the public sector is crushed under the weight of the government. All non-laborer jobs are government jobs. Only non-whites can have government jobs. This isn’t about jobs or taxes or the economy or even kickbacks to his peeps. Obama is a freaking communist! In the end, he thinks everyone gets a job and free housing and food. This is about slow genocide. We need to stop thinking that we are fighting for our 401k and start thinking that we are fighting for our existence.

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posted on 08/20/2011 7:53:19 AM PDT
by Bryanw92
(The solution to fix Congress: Nuke em from orbit. It's the only way to be sure!)

I don't believe any executive order can trump veterans preference though.

The order states "the head of each executive department and agency ... shall ... designate the agency's Chief Human Capital Officer to be responsible for enhancing employment and promotion opportunities within the agency".

So you're the "Human Capital Officer" (Director of Human Resources, whatever), and the President Hisself has decreed that he will hold YOU personally responsible for increasing black employment in your department. What do you think the Personnel people will do?

As Obama's approval numbers began to move in the same direction as the employment numbers some months ago it was easy to forecast, as we did, that Obama, unable to run on his record, would mount a campaign of demagoguery with heavy emphasis on playing the race card.

He is now laying the predicate to accuse the Republicans of being racists if they dare oppose this blatant pandering to prefer one race over others or, more precisely, to prefer all races over one. Not incidentally, we see him also now laying the predicate to accuse the Republicans of racism against Hispanics if they oppose his new amnesty regime.

On the economic front he is doing the same with his forthcoming recovery plan. It does not matter that his recovery plan has been tried to the tune of trillions of dollars and failed. It does not matter that he is attacking a strawman when he alleges by inference discrimination in the government' s hiring practices. It matters only that he will assume the high ground and those who attack that position will be vilified in the media.

Nathan Bedford's first maximum of American politics: all politics in America is not local but ultimately racial.

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